The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies is a major reference work, which aims to provide informed insights into the possible future of postcolonial studies as well as a comparative overview of the latest developments in the field.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- General Introduction
- Section One: The Imperial Past
- Introduction
- Reason Aside: Reflections on Enlightenment and Empire
- Empires of Democracy
- The Imperial Past: Spain and Portugal in the New World
- Imperial/Colonial Metamorphosis: A Decolonial Narrative, from the Ottoman Sultanate and Spanish Empire to the US and the EU
- Empire, Islam, and the Postcolonial
- Hegel, Empire, and Anti-Colonial Thought
- Section One Response: Imperial Histories, Postcolonial Theories
- Section Two: The Colonial Present
- Introduction
- Violence, Law, and Justice in the Colonial Present
- Renegade Prophets and Native Acolytes: Liberalism and Imperialism Today
- The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Challenge of Postcolonial Agency: International Relations, US Policy and the Arab World
- Africa's Colonial Present: Development, Violence, and Postcolonial Security
- Beyond Biopolitics: Agamben, Asylum, and Postcolonial Critique
- Indigenous Inhabitations and the Colonial Present
- Section Two Response: Towards an Anti-Colonial Future
- Section Three: Theory and Practice
- Introduction
- Revisiting Resistance: Postcolonial Practice and the Antecedents of Theory
- 'Third Worldism' and the Political Imaginary of Postcolonial Studies
- Postcolonialism and/as Translation
- Remembering Back: Cultural Memory, Colonial Legacies, and Postcolonial Studies
- Postcolonialism and Popular Cultures
- Race, Racism, and Postcoloniality
- Section Three Response: Theory and Practice in Postcolonial Studies
- Section Four: Across the Disciplines
- Introduction
- Modes and Models of Postcolonial Cross-Disciplinarity
- Postcolonialism and Literature
- Postcolonialism and History
- 'Slippery, Like a Fish': The Discourse of the Social Sciences
- At the Limits of the Secular: History and Critique in Postcolonial Religious Studies
- Postcolonialism and the Environment
- Section Four Response: Origins, Outcomes and the Meaning of Postcolonial Diversity
- Section Five: Across the World
- Introduction
- Perspectives on Globalization and Subalternity
- Postcolonialism, Globalization, and the Asia Question
- 'Our Sea of Islands': Globalization, Regionalism and (Trans)nationalism in the Pacific
- Africa and its Diasporas
- Postcolonializing the Americas
- Irritating Europe
- Section Five Response: What was Globalization?
- Afterword